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Hubble has been busy since coming back online

Author: Jennifer Leman / Source: Science News

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SAY CHEESE This image of a faraway galaxy cluster, released November 2, was taken with Hubble before the space telescope’s recent malfunctions. Hubble returned to work on October 26.

Hubble worried astronomers when it ran into unexpected trouble recently, forcing mission scientists to put it into safe mode while they sorted the problem out.

But the space telescope has more than made up for its time off since returning to work on October 26.

“Hubble is back to observing galaxies and stars, implementing programs that scientists around the world have proposed months ago,” says senior project scientist Jennifer Wiseman, who is based at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

In recent days, Hubble has monitored the collision of distant galaxies. And it has

, or dim low-mass stars, to see if the flares might fry any orbiting planets, which would probably mean…

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